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Activists want bullets to carry bar codes :: 09/27/2011
Yvonne Carrington Payne and Carolyn Funches have cooked Thanksgiving dinners for the homeless, raised money for needy families, and set up a shelter for battered women.
Lawyers, Guns, and Money :: 09/27/2011
Last December, U.S. border patrol agent Brian Terry was murdered in a firefight with three Mexican nationals in Arizona. Two guns recovered at the crime scene were traced back to an ongoing Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) investigation, informally known under the code names "Gunwalker" and "Fast and Furious."
Letter implicates ATF in committing straw purchases for Gunwalker :: 09/27/2011
A Gun Rights Examiner/Sipsey Street Irregulars exclusive
Republicans Step Up Pressure on Holder as More Details Surface on 'Fast and Furious' :: 09/27/2011
Congressional Republicans once again are turning up the heat on Attorney General Eric Holder , asking more questions about whether he had a role in the controversial anti-gunrunning operation known as "Fast and Furious."
Audio Tapes Reveal More Details in 'Fast and Furious' Gunrunner Scandal :: 09/21/2011
In a series of secretly recorded audio tapes, the owner of the gun store that sold a record number of weapons in Operation Fast and Furious admittedly sounds arrogant, crude and complicit in the U.S. government's plan to sell high powered assault rifles to the Sinaloa Cartel.
Congress expands Fast and Furious probe to White House :: 09/14/2011
Congressional investigators reviewing the failed gun-tracking program Operation Fast and Furious have formally asked the Obama administration to turn over copies of "all records" involving three key White House national security officials and the program, other ATF gun cases in Phoenix , and all communications between the White House and the ATF field office in Arizona.
Gun store owner had misgivings about ATF sting :: 09/14/2011
In the fall of 2009, ATF agents installed a secret phone line and hidden cameras in a ceiling panel and wall at Andre Howard's Lone Wolf gun store. They gave him one basic instruction: Sell guns to every illegal purchaser who walks through the door.
House Weighs Bill to Make Gun Permits Valid Across State Lines :: 09/14/2011
Lawmakers are considering a House bill that would give Americans who hold permits to carry firearms in their home states the right to carry their weapons across state lines.
EXCLUSIVE: Third Gun Linked to 'Fast and Furious' Identified at Border Agent's Murder Scene :: 09/10/2011
A third gun linked to "Operation Fast and Furious" was found at the murder scene of Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, new documents obtained exclusively by Fox News suggest, contradicting earlier assertions by federal agencies that police found only two weapons tied to the federal government's now infamous gun interdiction scandal.
ATF source: a blatant partisan act that circumvents the law and Congress :: 08/30/2011
A long time street agent with the Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms, and Explosives (the ATF), who serves as anonymous source in the ongoing investigation into the Project Gunwalker scandal, reported to blogger/citizen journalist Mike Vanderboegh yesterday that the agency's response by doubling down on the illegal activity is a blatant partisan act that circumvents the law and the will of Congress.
Cheney tells inside story of how he bucked administration on 2nd Amendment :: 08/30/2011
Former Vice President Dick Cheney's autobiographical book offers new information about a rare instance of Cheney breaking with his own administration's official policy on a Second Amendment appeals court ruling, angering a top aide to then-President George W. Bush.
Palm Beach Resists State Gun Laws and the Second Amendment :: 08/30/2011
Every city and county government in Florida is being encouraged to review its firearms ordinances after the state Legislature adopted a law that makes it illegal for local officials to impose tougher gun regulations than the state does.
Rape, Crying Wolf, and the Criminal Justice System :: 08/30/2011
One of Helen Smith's readers started a fur ball over the issue of rape accusations in colleges, claiming that male students are fleeing colleges is "because they are less likely to get away with rape" there.
3 tied to PA Deputy killer's guns :: 08/23/2011
Three people - including the father of the man who killed Berks County Deputy Sheriff Kyle D. Pagerly - were arrested Friday on charges they supplied guns to the killer. Matthew M. Connor, 25, used an AK-47 rifle to mortally wound Pagerly on June 29 behind the Connor home in the first block of Pine Swamp Road, Albany Township, and was then shot dead by police. Following a several-week investigation, state police arrested two people on charges involving that weapon: Connor's father, Maurice L. Connor, 70, a retired Cherry Hill, N.J., parking enforcement officer; and Jared D. Engelman, 26, of the 15600 block of Main Street, Shoemakersville.
Air Force recovers stolen materials from Friday's raid :: 08/23/2011
Las Vegas, NV (KTNV)-- We're learning more on why the U.S. Air Force raided a local gun store Friday . They say it wasn't guns they were looking for.
BREAKING: Issa, Grassley tell Holder 'word games' won't do :: 08/23/2011
Congressman Darrell Issa and Senator Charles Grassley told Attorney General Eric Holder in a new letter that the Justice Department, rather than live up to an agreement to provide full responses to questions about Operation Fast and Furious, is playing disappointing "word games."
Florida Preemption Changes - Local gun rules coming off the books :: 08/23/2011
The worry is that someone upset about not getting a building permit could walk into a municipal building and whip out a gun to show their displeasure. Or at a park, parents get into a heated confrontation at a Little League game, and a gun comes out.
Pittsburgh Police call for community's help to reduce violence :: 08/23/2011
Five lives spent on the wrong side of the lawended in gunfire in August, Pittsburgh police Chief Nate Harper said Friday.
Supreme Court faces new gun control cases :: 08/23/2011
Washington, D.C., United States (AHN) - The Supreme Court is being asked again to redefine rights to gun ownership in a new petition.
Woman killed at Adams Co. gun shop :: 08/23/2011
There are still questions surrounding the shooting death of a woman inside an Adams County gun shop.
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